Patents by Inventor Sebastian Müller

Sebastian Müller has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12264507
    Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-theft device configured to be attached to merchandise to be protected, in particular textile products, comprising a housing and a locking mechanism, which is received in the housing at least in part and comprises a securing element, wherein the securing element is adjustable between a securing position, in which it engages with the merchandise to be protected, and a release position, in which detachment and removal of the anti-theft device from the merchandise to be protected are permitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: rapitag GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Müller, Alexander Schneider
  • Publication number: 20250098337
    Abstract: Described herein is an optical sensor, a detector including the optical sensor for an optical detection of at least one object, a method for manufacturing the optical sensor and various uses of the optical detector. The optical sensor can, be supplied as a non-bulky hermetic package which provides an increased degree of protection against possible degradation by humidity and/or oxygen over long terms. Further, the optical sensor may be easily manufactured and integrated on a circuit carrier device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Wilfried HERMES, Sebastian VALOUCH, Sebastian MUELLER, Regina HOEH, Heidi BECHTEL, Timo ALTENBECK, Fabian DITTMANN, Bertram FEUERSTEIN, Thomas HUPFAUER, Anke HANDRECK, Robert GUST, Robert SEND, Ingmar BRUDER
  • Publication number: 20250092963
    Abstract: Flow restrictor for a mass flow controller, having at least two flow guiding elements from the group: inlet plate with at least one inlet bore, throttle plate with at least one throttle bore, outlet plate with at least one outlet bore. The flow guiding elements are arranged at a distance from one another and wherein the at least one inlet bore, the at least one throttle bore and the at least one outlet bore are each arranged offset from one another in a spatial direction transverse to a central axis of the flow restrictor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Michael WIELAND, Martin KILB, Sebastian MÜLLER, Jörg SIEBERT
  • Patent number: 12254754
    Abstract: The invention relates to a security system designed to recognise, by means of the presence and/or content of a status enquiry signal of at least one security unit, whether or not at least one security unit is located inside the security zone. The security system includes an alarm generating unit which is designed to generate an alarm signal if it has been recognised that the at least one security unit is located outside the security zone. The invention further relates to a method for emitting an alarm signal, a bus with a security system and a use of a security system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Rapitag GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Müller, Alexander Schneider
  • Publication number: 20250043597
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a closure guard for a bottle, comprising a first housing part and a second housing part, which are configured to non-releasably enclose an upper portion of the neck of the bottle to be secured, including the bottle closure, when in a securing state, wherein the first housing part and the second housing part are interconnected so as to be movable relative to one another and are transferable between the securing state and a release state, in which the closure guard can be released from the neck, and a locking mechanism which is associated with either the first housing part or the second housing part and is configured to lock the first housing part and the second housing part in the securing state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: rapitag GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian MÜLLER, Alexander SCHNEIDER
  • Patent number: 12199209
    Abstract: Described herein is an optical sensor, a detector including the optical sensor for an optical detection of at least one object, a method for manufacturing the optical sensor and various uses of the optical detector. The optical sensor can be supplied as a non-bulky hermetic package which provides an increased degree of protection against possible degradation by humidity and/or oxygen over long terms. Further, the optical sensor may be easily manufactured and integrated on a circuit carrier device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: TRINAMIX GMBH
    Inventors: Wilfried Hermes, Sebastian Valouch, Sebastian Mueller, Regina Hoeh, Heidi Bechtel, Timo Altenbeck, Fabian Dittmann, Bertram Feuerstein, Thomas Hupfauer, Anke Handreck, Robert Gust, Robert Send, Ingmar Bruder
  • Patent number: 12188266
    Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-theft device (100) configured for being attached to merchandise to be protected, in particular textile products, wherein the anti-theft device (100) comprises a housing (102) and a locking mechanism (130), which has a needle (106), wherein the needle (106) is adjustable between a locking position, in which it engages with the merchandise to be protected, and a release position, in which detachment and removal of the anti-theft device (100) from the merchandise to be protected are permitted, wherein the needle (106) has a curved, preferably arcuate shape and is accommodated in the housing (102) when in the release position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: rapitag GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Müller, Alexander Schneider
  • Patent number: 12175850
    Abstract: Disclosed is a product anti-theft system having a product anti-theft device configured to be attached to a product to be secured, the anti-theft device having a housing with a connecting portion designed to be connected to the product to be secured and a locking mechanism associated with the connecting portion and having a secured state and a released state. The anti-theft system further includes a release device for transmitting a release signal that triggers transferring of the locking mechanism from the secured state to the released state. Also disclosed is a method of operating an anti-theft device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: rapitag GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Müller, Alexander Schneider
  • Patent number: 12168431
    Abstract: A brake system for a motor vehicle has electromechanical wheel brakes, a brake operating unit and a central brake control unit. The wheel brakes each have a local brake control unit. The central brake control unit is connected to the brake operating unit and the local brake control units via a first data connection. The brake operating unit is connected to the local brake control unit of at least one wheel brake via a second data connection. In a normal operating mode the central brake control unit determines at least one brake demand from first operating information, received via the first data connection and transmits control signals corresponding to the brake demand to the local brake control units. In a fallback operating mode the local brake control units actuate the respective wheel brakes basis on second operating information, received via the second data connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Martin Brenn, Jürgen Böhm, Sascha Gröger, Sebastian Müller, Jochen Beuss, Anselm Keil, Marco Besier, Matthias Muntu, Timo Sauerwald
  • Patent number: 12139940
    Abstract: The invention relates to a product anti-theft device, which is designed to be attached to products that are to be protected, in particular textile products, the anti-theft device comprising a housing and a locking mechanism, which locking mechanism comprises a needle, the needle being movable between an engaged position, in which it engages with the product that is to be protected, and a release position, in which it allows the product anti-theft device to be released and removed from the product that is to be protected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: rapitag GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Müller, Alexander Schneider
  • Patent number: 12131860
    Abstract: An arrangement and a method for the gradual shutoff of potential in high voltage technology. The arrangement has at least one armature body, an electrically insulating film, and electrically conductive regions. The electrically conductive regions are arranged between layers of the electrically insulating films, and at least parts of the electrically insulating film are arranged around the at least one armature body. The arrangement is used in direct current applications. Resistive compensation currents are reduced and/or avoided along the electrically insulating film, and/or by an armature body, which functions as a first gradual potential shutoff coating, and/or by way of the electrical contacting of the outermost electrically conductive region between layers of electrically insulating film via an electrical contact through an opening in the outer layer of the insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: HSP Hochspannungsgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Mueller, Udo Prucker
  • Patent number: 12116807
    Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-theft device configured to be attached to merchandise to be protected, preferably to cardboard boxes, the anti-theft device comprising a housing, which comprises a winding apparatus rotatably mounted therein, at least one securing-loop arrangement, the securing-loop arrangement being designed to loop around the merchandise to be protected such that the anti-theft device can be securely connected to the merchandise to be protected, and a winding apparatus locking mechanism configured to prevent the rotational unwinding movement of the winding apparatus in the housing, if the winding apparatus locking mechanism is engaged with the winding apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: rapitag GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Müller, Alexander Schneider
  • Publication number: 20240227668
    Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a central light control unit and a plurality of interior light modules, each of which includes a single light source or a plurality of light sources. The motor vehicle also includes a data bus via which the central light control unit and the interior light modules are coupled to one another. The central light control unit is configured to transmit control commands to the interior light modules in order to trigger motor vehicle interior lighting effects, wherein control information, which is included in the control commands and includes at least one color value and one brightness value for the interior light modules, is created based on runtime-variable input data. The runtime-variable input data is based on current ambient conditions of the motor vehicle and/or variable data sources of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Felix CONRAD, Michael MUELLER, Sebastian MUELLER, Jens VEDDELER
  • Patent number: 12002617
    Abstract: A high-voltage transducer includes a housing, which spatially encloses at least one electrical measuring device and an insulating gas. The insulating gas is clean air, with which electrical insulation in the housing of the high-voltage transducer is carried out. A method for measuring with the high-voltage transducer is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: HSP Hochspannungsgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Baehr, Sebastian Mueller, Udo Prucker
  • Patent number: 11993958
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bottle lock for a bottle, comprising a housing part designed to enclose an upper portion of the bottle neck of the bottle to be secured, including the bottle cap of the bottle to be secured, a plurality of claws arranged in the housing part, which are designed and intended to engage non-releasably with the upper portion of the bottle neck when the bottle lock is in a secured state and to allow the bottle lock to be released and removed away from the upper portion of the bottle neck in the released state of the bottle lock, and to a locking mechanism intended to assume an unlocked state in which the bottle lock can be transferred from the secured state to the released state, and a locked state in which the bottle lock cannot be transferred from the secured state to the released state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: rapitag GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Müller, Alexander Schneider
  • Patent number: 11989023
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for navigating an industrial truck in a predetermined area with the following method steps: providing a map of the predetermined area with at least one permanent landmark, entering a temporary landmark in the map, when the temporary landmark is created, deleting the temporary landmark from the map when the temporary landmark is removed, and navigating the industrial truck in the predetermined area on the basis of the map having the permanent landmark and the temporary landmark. In this way, the navigating of a preferably autonomously or partly autonomously driving industrial truck in a predetermined area, such as at a depot, is improved and in particular is made safer and more reliable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: StreetScooter GmbH
    Inventors: Marco Bellof, Bugra Turan, Sebastian Müller
  • Patent number: 11976979
    Abstract: Described herein is a detector for detecting optical radiation, especially within the infrared spectral range, specifically with regard to sensing at least one of transmissivity, absorption, emission and reflectivity, being capable of avoiding or diminishing a cross detection between sensor areas, specifically between adjacent sensor areas, thus, avoiding or diminishing a deterioration of a measurement based on the at least one sensor signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: TRINAMIX GMBH
    Inventors: Sebastian Valouch, Alexander Klein, Sebastian Mueller, Wilfried Hermes, Robert Send
  • Patent number: 11970884
    Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-theft device configured to be attached to merchandise to be protected the anti-theft device including a housing, which comprises a winding apparatus rotatably arranged therein, at least one securing-loop arrangement designed and intended to loop around the merchandise to be protected such that the anti-theft device can be securely connected to the merchandise to be protected, and a locking mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: rapitag GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Müller, Alexander Schneider
  • Publication number: 20240131985
    Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a central light control unit and a plurality of interior light modules, each of which includes a single light source or a plurality of light sources. The motor vehicle also includes a data bus via which the central light control unit and the interior light modules are coupled to one another. The central light control unit is configured to transmit control commands to the interior light modules in order to trigger motor vehicle interior lighting effects, wherein control information, which is included in the control commands and includes at least one color value and one brightness value for the interior light modules, is created based on runtime-variable input data. The runtime-variable input data is based on current ambient conditions of the motor vehicle and/or variable data sources of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Felix CONRAD, Michael MUELLER, Sebastian MUELLER, Jens VEDDELER
  • Patent number: 11908956
    Abstract: Described herein is an optical sensor, a detector including the optical sensor for an optical detection of at least one object, and a method for manufacturing the optical sensor. The optical sensor (110) includes a substrate (120); a photoconductive layer (112) applied to a first portion (116) of a surface (118) of the substrate (120); and at least one electrode layer (124) applied to a second portion (126) of the surface (118) of the substrate (120). The optical sensor (110) exhibits a linear current-voltage characteristic according to Ohm's law.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: TRINAMIX GMBH
    Inventors: Wilfried Hermes, Sebastian Valouch, Sebastian Mueller, Regina Hoeh, Heidi Bechtel, Timo Altenbeck, Fabian Dittmann, Bertram Feuerstein, Thomas Hupfauer, Anke Handreck, Robert Gust, Peter Paul Kaletta, Daniel Kaelblein, Robert Send